Senior Sous Chef

Harrods; Cheltenham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A renowned luxury retail emporium in Cheltenham seeks a Senior Sous Chef to lead the dining team in delivering upscale culinary experiences. The role involves overseeing daily kitchen operations, ensuring food quality, and adherence to health and safety standards. Candidates should have extensive hospitality experience, particularly in fine dining, and strong leadership skills. This full-time position offers competitive compensation and attractive benefits including annual leave, staff discounts, and a company pension scheme.

Benefits

Competitive annual salary

Overtime pay at x1.5

Subsidised Staff Canteen

33 days annual leave + birthday off

Up to 33% Harrods discount

Generous company pension scheme

Qualifications

• Proven experience in high-end fine dining or private members clubs.
• Strong leadership skills to inspire and coach the team.
• Knowledge and passion for food and drink.

Responsibilities

• Manage daily operations and quality of food production.
• Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations.
• Set daily production levels and monitor goods received.

Skills

Leadership

Time management

Interpersonal skills

Attention to detail

PC literacy (Word, Excel, SAP)

Tools

SAP

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Senior Sous Chef

Here at Harrods, we currently house more celebrity chefs, and exclusive dining brands than any other location in the UK.

We are looking for a Senior Sous Chef to join our passionate dining team to deliver a luxury, world‑class hospitality offering, all within our iconic Knightsbridge store.

About the Role

As a Senior Sous Chef, you'll be responsible for the day to day operations of your brigade to ensure the highest quality of product is being produced. By leading your team and assisting the Head Chef in all managerial duties, you’ll be responsible for setting daily production levels, monitoring all goods received from internal and external vendors and production, ensuring that quality standards are met.

You’ll manage the day‑to‑day administration and production ensuring compliance to internal systems including SAP.

In this role, you’ll also be responsible for effective storage, ordering food stock and planning production levels to minimise wastage and ensure that stock checks are completed in a timely manner. By adhering to all Health & Safety regulations and procedures, you’ll set a high standard of food safety in the daily operations.

About You

You’ll have a strong track record of hospitality experience, preferably within a high‑end fine dining or private members club environment. You’ll need to be confident in leading your team to drive quality and ensure specs are followed always. Having a great knowledge and passion for food and drink is essential. You’ll have great time‑management skills and a strong customer focus when dealing with both internal and external parties.

You’ll have exceptional interpersonal skills and a good attention to detail, which will be evident through paperwork completed, organisation of department and sufficient stock levels. By coaching, inspiring and motivating the team, you’ll be able to demonstrate effective leadership and management skills. Reporting to the Head Chef, you’ll build effective relationships with support functions including Food Halls, Restaurants, Food Safety, Distribution and HR. Having good PC literacy is a must (Word, Excel and preferably SAP).

About Us

As the world’s leading luxury retail emporium, we make the impossible possible, and our hospitality offer is evolving and expanding rapidly across our stores. We are a welcoming and close‑knit family who are passionate about food and beverage and aim to craft dining experiences that are the highlight of our customers’ visits.

Our Promise To You

Help us make the impossible possible for our customers and we’ll do something remarkable for you. As well as offering a friendly environment to inspire your best work, we provide abundant opportunities and support to build an exceptional career across the varied specialisms of our business.

In return for your hard work as a Senior Sous Chef, you’ll learn every aspect of working in a busy, premier kitchen and will receive some great benefits including:

• Competitive annual salary (made up from generous base salary plus service charge)*
• Set contracted hours (45 per week) – paid additional working hours at an overtime rate of x1.5 p/h
• Access to subsidised Staff Canteen
• 33 days’ annual leave + birthday off (including Bank holidays)
• Up to 33% Harrods discount
• Generous company pension scheme and much more

Uniquely You

While our job adverts outline the ideal qualities, skills, and prior experience for the role, we believe in the potential for growth and value individual strengths. If you do not meet every desired criteria but feel you have the skills and experience to thrive in this role as well as a genuine interest in working for Harrods and you can demonstrate an alignment with our values, we would encourage you to apply.

At Harrods we believe the personality and authenticity of our people sets us apart. We celebrate and invite applications from all cultures, backgrounds, tastes, and experiences and are proud of our culture where people from all walks of life can grow and thrive. What makes you unique makes us exceptional.

If you want to know more about our people and our culture, search #TogetherHarrods on LinkedIn, Facebook or follow us on Instagram @togetherharrods

*The amount of tronc you receive will vary and is not guaranteed by either Harrods Ltd or the Troncmaster. However, the Troncmaster will always distribute 100% funds available each period according to the Rules, a copy of which will be provided to all members.

Additional Information:

Time Type: Permanent

Department: Restaurants (Marcus Rohlén)